| Title | Building the myth : selected speeches memorializing Abraham Lincoln / edited by Waldo W. Braden.
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| Published | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1990.
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| Description | v, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-252-01734-X (alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-254) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: A plain man of the people / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- A new impulse of patriotism for his sake / Henry Ward Beecher -- The character, life, and death of Abraham Lincoln / Phillip Brooks -- How shall the nation show its sorrow? / George Bancroft -- Under the permissive hand of God / Matthew Simpson -- Expression of gratitude for freedom / Frederick Douglass -- The scene in the silent and pathetic language of art / James A. Garfield -- Saviour of the nation / Shelby M. Cullom -- The outline of the greatness of his gigantic figure / Jonathan P. Dolliver -- Lincoln as an orator / William Jennings Bryan -- Celebrating Lincoln / Joseph H. Choate -- My tribute to the great emancipator / Booker T. Washington -- The supreme vision of Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt -- Lincoln the orator / William E. Borah -- The sacred mystery of democracy / Woodrow Wilson.
The people's national tribute / William Howard Taft -- Lincoln's conceptions of liberty and justice / Elihu Root -- Abraham Lincoln, the inspirer of democracy / David Lloyd George -- Lincoln the man / Ida M. Tarbell -- Lincoln's faith in the people ; The struggle for human liberty ; Unfinished work of emancipation / Adlai E. Stevenson -- Abraham Lincoln and our unfinished business / Mario M. Cuomo.
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| Subjects | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| Other Authors | Braden, Waldo Warder, 1911-
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| Organizations | Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
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| LC Card Number | 90-30888//r932 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 457.7 B932
mq20028: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 13284] |
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